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Trump is Hiring Lobbyists and Top Ethics Official Says ‘There’s No Transparency’ by Justin Elliott ProPublica, April 15, 2017, 4:25 p.m. President Trump has stocked his administration with a small army of former lobbyists and corporate consultants who are now in the vanguard of the

Churches across the United States have formed a grassroots movement to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration policies and to offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants threatened with immediate deportation. More than 800 churches and some synagogues have declared themselves sanctuaries and are taking other measures to

The first 100 days of an American president’s first term in office traditionally are a time when the new administration’s major policy proposals might encounter less partisanship from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and possibly even have a head start on being voted into law.

by Justin Elliott ProPublica Geoff Burr spent much of the last decade as the chief lobbyist for a powerful construction industry trade group. Burr sought to influence a host of regulations of the Department of Labor, opposing wage standards for federal construction contracts and working

Is President Trump’s current executive order on immigrants and refugees legal? It’s a remarkably challenging question. The order arguably breaches both a federal statute and one or more sections of the Constitution– depending on whether the immigrant is currently in the United States. In the

Mandate might have possibly unexpected repercussions for among Trumps most aggressive policy reform platforms: hard migration enforcement On his very first working day in workplace, Donald Trump signed a governmental memorandum to freeze hiring of non-military federal employees in a relocation praised by little federal

The Secret Service stated Tuesday it was taking suitable and fast action versus a representative who revealed on Facebook that she wouldnt take a bullet for Donald Trump, CNN reported. But in its declaration to the news network, the firm decreased to supply information on

FILE – A cake named after Melania Trump is seen at coffee shop in her hometown Sevnica, Slovenia, Dec. 1, 2016. The medieval central Slovenian town of Sevnica sat unnoticed for centuries until it became the scene of atrocities in World War Two that left

As tyrants take control of democracies, they typically: Exaggerate their mandate to govern – claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to

Donald Trump has finally conceded Friday that his supporters were “vicious, violent, nasty and mean” during the presidential campaign. But he insists they’ve turned “mellow” now that he’s the president-elect. Trump’s praise for his more laid-back supporters was a marked departure from his earlier calls for violence at campaign